Speeches by Hack.

“Geoff, you raised the huge variance of people with learning disabilities not being able to engage with the employment market. That has certainly been my experience from my previous working life. How do you think that engagement with job coaches works for people particularly who are learning disabled? How does that need…”

“Michelle, your commentary about adjustment understanding was really key. On jobcentre work coaches and the work we need to do with the Pathways to Work advisers, how do you think understanding the adjustment market and what people might need from an adjustment point of view would improve support for disabled people?”

“Great—thank you. That answers my next question as well. What difference do you think the Pathways to Work advisers will make, bearing in mind that they are existing staff redeployed to undertake this new role? What work do you think we could do around that? Conor, you have not had the opportunity to respond.”

“I want to direct this question to Make UK. I was guesting on the Transport Select Committee last week and we have been looking at skills shortages. When we have ongoing recruitment challenges in certain sectors and there is huge demand for employees, what steps could the sector take to improve disability inclusion and …”

“In the trade associations, but also at your larger employers. How are you working to ensure that they have representation at board level as well as in key senior leadership roles?”

“What are your organisations doing to increase the representation of disabled people at leadership and board level?”

“Disability employment varies across sectors and across the different parts of the country. What do you think are the greatest opportunities for further progress? How are you addressing some of the barriers that we might face in certain parts of the country?”

“The industrial strategy says that Skills England has a crucial role in simplifying the skills landscape. Do you think that will make the impact that we want it to? How will simplification increase the number of people taking up training in transport manufacturing roles, rather than just manufacturing overall?”

“Thank you to the panel for coming to speak to us today. What is the Government’s assessment of the most pressing skills need for the transport manufacturing sectors? How does that differ from other forms of manufacturing?”

“Just to really quickly follow up, I am guest sitting from the Work and Pensions Committee. We have just published the inquiry on “Get Britain Working” this morning. The big element of that was good jobs for people who need them. What work is being done? We have a skills shortage, and we have lots of individuals who are…”

“Earlier this year, in my capacity as co-chair of the all-party parliamentary group for food and drink, I hosted a roundtable on increasing access to healthy fruit and vegetables. Innocent Drinks has led a sector response on that inequality and has proposed a focus on access around schools. Does my hon. Friend agree tha…”

“I thank the Secretary of State for her statement, and for her commitment to our young people. Parents and teachers will know just how gruelling the GCSE exams are for our students, many of whom are undertaking mocks as we speak. I welcome the commitment to working with Ofqual to reduce time volume by 10%. Will the Secr…”

“Thank you both for joining us this morning. What more do you think the Government can do to better support transport manufacturing sectors to ensure we have the skills we need moving forward? I know we have covered a lot today, so if there is anything you feel we could add that would be great.”

“In recent years, imported bricks have made up nearly 20% of the UK brick market, yet I know that organisations such as Ibstock Brick in North West Leicestershire can supply the bricks for the homes that we need. How do we make sure that UK brick manufacturers can maximise investment, employ local people and deliver the…”

“So obviously the impact on those pensioners is felt so much more keenly. The combination of high inflation and improved scheme funding in recent years might have led to an increase in discretionary payments but appears not to have done so. How would you explain those decisions not to give discretionary payments even if…”

“Thank you. That moves me smoothly on to the next question about your role from a regulation point of view. The Government have said you would do further work to understand what was driving these trends. What can you tell us about that work?”

“My point is that in all the poor behaviour that has gone on in the pension sector, it has not been the employees or the trustees who have lost out; it has been the pensioners. I think that right now there feels to be very little of a safety valve for those individuals. We talked in the previous panel about the 1997 ind…”

“Apologies; I have not listened to panels one and two so I do not have the benefit of information that has already come forward. A pension is deferred wages, and I am wondering how else we could get the voice of those pension holders. Most of the conversation that I have observed has been very much around the trustees a…”

“I welcome the statement, including the key commitment to breaking down barriers to opportunities to enable young people to gain the education that they deserve. This new focus will also support the employers who have been consistently talking to me about the skills challenges they face, particularly those relating to v…”

“I thank my hon. Friend for securing this important Adjournment debate. I was recently contacted by a constituent who regularly travels between Castle Donington and Littleover. They say that every evening last year, the A50 was either closed or restricted, or the access slip roads were closed. Does my hon. Friend agree …”